Our KidBlogs are up and running! Last week students in our class started learning how to create a blog post and at this point have at least one post written. This week students are learning how to make a comment on a friend's blog post.
We have begun discussing what it means to be good digital citizens by being kind, appropriate, and safe about what we put on the internet. We have also started learning about what makes for a good post and a good comment on a friend's post.
A quality post should have a title and tell some specific information on one topic in the body of the text (keeping in mind being kind, appropriate, and safe about personally identifying information). A quality comment should be related to the friend's post and give a specific compliment, add new information, make a connection, or ask a question. Both a comment and a post should be proof read before it is published!
Kids can use their KidBlogs at home by clicking the link at the right side of this blog under "student links," clicking on their name in the drop down menu, and entering their password, which is their last name beginning with a capital letter.
Parents should be able to comment on their children's posts by viewing the blogs as a guest (kids love reading comments from family members as well as friends). Kidblog's format and privacy settings were updated over the summer so it is possible that entering comments as a guest may have changed. If you try to comment on your child's blog as a guest please let me know how it goes. I am curious to see if it still works and hopeful that it does!
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